Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Jun 3, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-3469
CVE-2021-3469
Description
Foreman versions before 2.3.4 and before 2.4.0 is affected by an improper authorization handling flaw. An authenticated attacker can impersonate the foreman-proxy if product enable the Puppet Certificate authority (CA) to sign certificate requests that have subject alternative names (SANs). Foreman do not enable SANs by default and allow-authorization-extensions is set to false unless user change /etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/conf.d/ca.conf configuration explicitly.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.3.4
- (no CPE)range: <2.3.4, <2.4.0
- (no CPE)range: foreman 2.3.4, foreman 2.4.0
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References
1- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisory
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